Neville Goddard Lectures: “Gathered One by One”

19 Jan Neville Goddard Lectures: “Gathered One by One”

11/17/64

Tonight’s subject, as usual, is all about the reality we call God. We titled it “You Shall Be Gathered One by One.” Tonight I hope to make it a very practical picture.

Do not be ashamed of your own testament to our Lord, for our Lord, as far as I am concerned, is our own wonderful human Imagination. If you’ve experimented and you’ve proven it, then don’t be ashamed no matter what the world would say to tell it. I have just quoted from the 1st chapter of 2nd Timothy: Do not be ashamed of our testimony to our Lord. If you’ve proven it in performance so what does it matter if the whole world denies it? You tell it, because what you and I know from experience we know more thoroughly than we know anything else in this world…if we know it from experience. So don’t ever hesitate to tell it. In fact, the individual who has actually experienced God’s word cannot escape the responsibility of telling its meaning to others. He just can’t do it. He must tell it to everyone in the world for the simple reason we’re only one. There’s only one being in this world and that being, when one awakes, they call Jesus the Christ, the only being in the world. So you put yourself to the test—-not another, not testing another—-testing self. There is no other. And when you test yourself and it proves itself in performance, then because there is no other you share it with every being in the world.

The Old Testament is simply a series, the most marvelous permanent series of states through which you and I pass. The New Testament is its fulfillment. Last Friday night, I asked you who were here to read the 13th chapter of 1st Kings. I hope you did. I hope you read it seriously and contemplated it. If you were not here, and there is someone tonight who is here for the first time, or maybe was not here last Friday, let me give you the highlights. And behold, a man of God came from Judah and he came with a message. The message was the destruction of that which was not faithful to God. It worshipped false gods; it was the altar of Bethel, the house of God. But he was given a certain condition: He must not eat bread and drink water in the area that he came to pronounce this prophecy, and he must not return the way he came…he must not. In the story he was deceived by a false spirit; and so he ate of the bread of that area and he drank of the water. Then the prophet who had received the false message said to him, “Because you disobeyed the word of the Lord your God you shall not return to the tomb of your fathers.” In other words, he would die on his way back. And it was fulfilled. He was killed on his way back.

When you read that you wonder, “What is it all about?” Let me share with you what it’s all about, for I have experienced this in its positive state. I did not eat or drink in the area where I was sent to give a message, and I returned to the tomb of my Father. If you do not, you cannot return to the tomb of your Father. So let me share with you this strange and wonderful mystery. If you haven’t had it, you’re going to have it, because there is only one being in the world and that being is God…and you are God. You’re playing all of the parts in the world, and these are placed like an obstacle race and you and I pass through them, coming towards the ultimate end which is God awakening, that’s all. You begin as God, the way is God, the end is God…there’s nothing but God.